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QUALITY‐ADJUSTED HUMAN CAPITAL AND PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH

Author(s) -

RABIUL ISLAM MD.,

ANG JAMES B.,

MADSEN JAKOB B.

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

economic inquiry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823

H-Index - 72

eISSN - 1465-7295

pISSN - 0095-2583

DOI - 10.1111/ecin.12052

Subject(s) - frontier , human capital , productivity , economics , educational attainment , quality (philosophy) , panel data , labour economics , capital (architecture) , demographic economics , econometrics , economic growth , geography , philosophy , epistemology , archaeology

This article examines the influence of quality‐adjusted educational attainment on growth and tests whether it facilitates the transfer of technology developed at the frontier for a panel of 60 countries. Using outcomes of pathogen stress as instruments, the results show that quality‐adjusted educational attainment and its interaction with distance to the frontier play important roles for growth. (JEL I20, O30, O40 )

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